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Yeah, I'm kind of curious too. I would expect little accommodation from prior content (i.e. season 0-6) as they pre-date the occult classes. At a certain point, though, the occult classes gain options that allow them to power through. I mean, Logical Spell feels like a requirement on the psychic, occultist, and spiritualist at a certain point, but the mesmerist has a self-cleanse as a swift action starting at 3, kineticist doesn't care, and medium is only marginally impacted due to their light spell load.
Incidentally, I've found that talismans are particularly good for occult classes due to the Warrior's Courage one, which auto-downgrades a fear effect to shaken.
Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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Doesn't Shaken still stop you from satisfying Emotion components?
That said, there are some self-help spells on those lists that don't have emotion components, and the metamagic rod of logical spell also exists.
And they make up for it by being able to cast Silence without neutering themselves. That's a pretty powerful pre-buff going into a boss room.
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Doesn't Shaken still stop you from satisfying Emotion components?
That said, there are some self-help spells on those lists that don't have emotion components, and the metamagic rod of logical spell also exists.
And they make up for it by being able to cast Silence without neutering themselves. That's a pretty powerful pre-buff going into a boss room.
Yes, but you can use a potion of remove fear, cast intellect fortress (swift action to suppress emotion and fear effects, no emotion component), or use Logical Spell once you can act. The talisman is to break bigger fear effects so you can get to that point.
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Venture-Lieutenant, Massachusetts—Boston Metro
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Yeah, I'm kind of curious too. I would expect little accommodation from prior content (i.e. season 0-6) as they pre-date the occult classes. At a certain point, though, the occult classes gain options that allow them to power through. I mean, Logical Spell feels like a requirement on the psychic, occultist, and spiritualist at a certain point, but the mesmerist has a self-cleanse as a swift action starting at 3, kineticist doesn't care, and medium is only marginally impacted due to their light spell load.
Incidentally, I've found that talismans are particularly good for occult classes due to the Warrior's Courage one, which auto-downgrades a fear effect to shaken.
It depends on what content you're using as the Occult classes are all over the place in regards to mechanics. My favorite Occult mechanic being the Talisman crafter.
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In my experience with PFS, fear -tactics- tend to be more common in pre-occult seasons, while feat -themes- are explored in all seasons.
Cause Fear crops up now and then in the first 5 levels, as well as Dazzling Display. But after those levels, the typical methods of demoralizing are far too inefficient to throw at a party getting fitted for their big boy pants.
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In my experience with PFS, fear -tactics- tend to be more common in pre-occult seasons, while feat -themes- are explored in all seasons.
Cause Fear crops up now and then in the first 5 levels, as well as Dazzling Display. But after those levels, the typical methods of demoralizing are far too inefficient to throw at a party getting fitted for their big boy pants.
Well on top of that too the only class that would have a hard enough go at it would be the Psychic. All the other ones either have ways around it or don't need to use any components to cast.
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My typical experience (level 19 psychic):
1-7: Potion of Remove Fear in a Spring-Loaded Wrist Sheath (if GMs are ok with that) or in an easily accessible pouch/Handy Haversack.
8+: Logical Remove Fear (if you grabbed the metamagic feat) or somewhere in here, you work in Intellect Fortress 1 to your spells known.
In all of scenarios that I've played, I've not had more than 1 round lost to any fear effects. Most of the time now, I lose no more than a swift action (either Quickened Logical Remove Fear or Int Fortress). If I'm particularly concerned, I use Joyful Rapture.
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I'm afraid you're providing insufficient information for me to evaluate your claims. What scenarios are you referring to (in spoiler tags, please!) so we can look into the issues?in general im not referring fear tactics, but some special trap or ability only affect psychic caster.
for instance
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That scenario didn't screw over Psychic casters. Move action to center standard to cast normally and given that most Psychic casters don't want to cast in that encounter that forces concentration checks it's a moot point regardless.
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And they make up for it by being able to cast Silence without neutering themselves. That's a pretty powerful pre-buff going into a boss room.
That is a really good idea.
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While I played that particular scenario on a different character, I would have had +21 concentration at level 9, +25 for casting defensively (CL 9, 26 Int, +2 trait, +4 combat casting, +2 uncanny concentration). I don't have that scenario at hand to see what the DCs were, but I can't imagine failing those checks if I used a move action to center. That said, I had invested heavily into concentration at lower levels to avoid the possibility of failing to concentrate when casting without centering. I've since retrained out of 2 feats (uncanny concentration and combat casting).
The thought component piece is really, really easy to bypass.
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Venture-Agent, Nebraska—Omaha
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I'm afraid you're providing insufficient information for me to evaluate your claims. What scenarios are you referring to (in spoiler tags, please!) so we can look into the issues?in general im not referring fear tactics, but some special trap or ability only affect psychic caster.
for instance
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I think you are referring to the Mental Static monster ability, which is a low concentration check for any spell with thought components or whenever any caster is concentrating on an active spell. A series of low rolls could be frustrating.
Writers like to use the new monsters just as much as players like to play the new classes.
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Venture-Lieutenant, Massachusetts—Boston Metro
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I'm afraid you're providing insufficient information for me to evaluate your claims. What scenarios are you referring to (in spoiler tags, please!) so we can look into the issues?in general im not referring fear tactics, but some special trap or ability only affect psychic caster.
for instance
** spoiler omitted **I think you are referring to the Mental Static monster ability, which is a low concentration check for any spell with thought components or whenever any caster is concentrating on an active spell. A series of low rolls could be frustrating.
Writers like to use the new monsters just as much as players like to play the new classes.
Nope. That scenario forces concentration checks for every one in that scenario.
in practice you can hardly do so, because you usually have an arcane or divine caster as team mate.That is a really good idea...,
And they make up for it by being able to cast Silence without neutering themselves. That's a pretty powerful pre-buff going into a boss room.
Keeping 20' away from my casting teammates wouldn't usually be difficult for the builds I'm contemplating using with this strategy.
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Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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in practice you can hardly do so, because you usually have an arcane or divine caster as team mate.That is a really good idea...,
And they make up for it by being able to cast Silence without neutering themselves. That's a pretty powerful pre-buff going into a boss room.
It requires some planning, but I doubt it's unworkable. Mesmerists can be built for melee and a lot of caster PCs will be comfortable to stand 20ft away from that melee.
For a psychic is could be a bit harder, but you could build to go Silent and Invisible, sneak over to the far side of the room, past enemies, and use only spells that don't break Invisibility. Considering how much you may have crippled the enemy, holding back some of your own magic would be an acceptable price to pay.
It's a shame the Human Psychic FCB is soooo good otherwise I'd make that as a Wayang.